Grounddaisies
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Townsendia
grounddaisies
Townsendia is a North American genus of perennial herbs in the Asteraceae family, commonly known as grounddaisies. Species typically form low-growing rosettes with showy capitula and exhibit specialized reproductive strategies including sexual diploidy and apomictic polyploidy. Some species display narrow edaphic specialization, such as T. lemhiensis which is restricted to ashy white soils in Idaho. The genus shows patterns of geographic parthenogenesis linked to glacial history.